Sentence examples for prior things from inspiring English sources

They certainly grow from the gardening manuals Bushnell analyses; but to use the poems to gloss the manuals is on the face of it perverse: less complicated and prior things can be invoked to explain more complicated and subsequent things, but not the other way around - unless you believe that the later and more complex phenomena reveal something about where the earlier and simpler texts are going.

Homosexuality had been legalised a few years prior and things were fast changing.

Prior to things like the auto-lathe, nuts and bolts needed to be mostly manually machined, and the bolts created by one machinist probably wouldn't work with nuts from another machinist.

"As a precaution, we ask [clients] to stop taking any blood thinners for three days prior, even things like aspirin, Advil, fish oils, certain vitamins, to minimize any potential bleeding, which normally doesn't happen," he said.

However Prior reflected that things could have been a good deal worse.

For the past eighteen months, prior to last week, things have been basically unidirectional.

By the very nature of things, prior restraint is, in the United States, a rare occurrence.

Hence distinct antecedent reasons determine truths; distinct prior grounds determine things.

"Time exists prior to all things in time" (Elem. Theol. § 53).

Internally, we also have a large number of prior examples of things we've done before for best practices.

As developed in the essay "Distance and Relation" (1951), relation cannot take shape apart from or without the prior setting of things, persons, and spiritual beings at a distance.